About William

Mr. Atkins is the leader of Pillsbury’s Intellectual Property Litigation team. He is a trial and appellate lawyer with 20 years of experience. He is a registered patent attorney who personally handles all of his cases and has won jury verdicts on both sides of the courtroom. Recent victories include (1) getting two university co-inventors added onto two NIH cancer drug patents with annual sales of approximately $2B, (2) an infringement jury verdict for a consumer product against a major competitor, and (3) a jury verdict for a client in defense of $200M+ patent infringement and related allegations. He takes pride in developing and obtaining the very best solution for each client's situation. Mr. Atkins has been lead counsel in nearly 100 intellectual property litigations and has extensive experience in patent, trademark, trade secret, Lanham Act, unfair competition and copyright matters. Over the course of his career, Mr. Atkins has been in trial and appellate courts, the International Trade Commission or ITC, arbitrations, mediations, and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Practice Areas

Education

• University of Baltimore, MBA, graduated 1992
• University of Baltimore, J.D., graduated 1992

Bar Admissions

• Virginia, Virginia State Bar
• Maryland, Maryland State Bar Association
• District of Columbia, The District of Columbia Bar

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